Radiohead just released an interactive online video for their newest single, "House of Cards." It appears to be looping strangely on my browser and not actually finishing the song appropriately, but even so, it's really quite nifty.

OK. Google has gone bonkers. They just released a virtual chatroom ... thing called Lively. Create an avatar, create a room, and enter and chat with your friends there! Sort of like Second Life, but far more limited. (Only runs on Windows. Feh ( Read more... )

Toshiba pulls out of HD-DVD, which means that Blu-Ray is the winner, and HD-DVD is going to continue to wither and die.

At least we've settled on a format, even if both of the formats were kind of evil. Then again, I'm not a fan of DRM in general. (Suprise!)

I'm not familiar with the company, but this place is selling HP LaserJet 1018 personal printers for $77.77 with free shipping (though the site defaults to non-free shipping, so you have to select free shipping on the menu on the left). Until the end of September, HP is offering a $65 discount on said model. (Click on "mail-in rebate" under the ( Read more... )

So I was browsing Slashdot at work, and I notice an article on the five most active software projects at SourceForge. I noodle through, taking a look, and notice StellariumWhoa. Like, major whoa ( Read more... )

So I'm having a hard time figuring out what it means that EMI just OK'd non-DRM tracks. (Thanks, by the by, to bryant for the link.) Overall, I'm not a big fan of digital rights management. It's a losing battle from a technical perspective, and from a commercial perspective, it's fairly clearly an artifact of an old(er) model for selling music. If we ( Read more... )

So, in my daily web-browsing, I found this Washington Post article linked from Slashdot. The short form is that a few high school students are suing Turnitin for copyright infringement, and I think they have a legitimate argument ( Read more... )

First off, an entertaining link: Google Maps's response to how to get from Santa Cruz, CA to Santa Cruz in Spain. My favorite part is step 33. Also note that they give an estimate of travel time that is reasonable considering an average rate of speed on step 33 ( Read more... )

Not that I have purchased it (yet), but I really, really want to buy a theramin.

Is that wrong?

Via brad, a link to Steve Jobs's thoughts on music. More specifically, it's his thoughts on DRM, how the record companies are confused about technologies, and how Apple doesn't have as vested an interest in DRM as one might immediately think. Worth a read, even if it does have a bit of Steve's reality distortion field surrounding it ( Read more... )